Paul Phillips

Try changing the configuration back to default and then back to the one you want. WordPress should update the .htaccess file. If it doesn’t you need to make sure the .htaccess is writeable.

Find this line in widgets.php

$cat_args = “orderby=name&show_count={$c}&hierarchical={$h}”;

and add the &exclude= to the end of it, eg. to exclude cat’s 1, 2 & 3

$cat_args = “orderby=name&show_count={$c}&hierarchical={$h}&exclude=1,2,3”;

It would be better to copy the category widget code and make a seperate widget with the exclude as an option tho and include it in your template. I’m not sure why this feature is left out as standard though because the page widget has it.

I would also like to know how to do this;

I guess you’d need to use;
<?php echo wp_widget_rss(); ?>
or something like that in the page template but I don’t know how to give the function a specific url to get the feed from.